Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 2 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 3 | I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie . |
| 4 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
| 5 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 6 | I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team . |
| 7 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 8 | I was born two miles away . |
| 9 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
| 10 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 11 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 12 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 13 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 14 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 15 | My job as a curate took mornings , afternoons and evenings , six days a week — I was given one day off — so there was no time to get fit by walking . |
| 16 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Not in the conventional sense , but I was given moral codes of conduct to follow . ’ |
| 18 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 19 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 20 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 21 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 22 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 23 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 24 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 25 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 26 | After another term , I was given more art , and my class-room became an unofficial art room , much to the distress of the caretaker , who accused me of having the dirtiest class-room in the school ! |
| 27 | I feel I could score more goals in Italy if I was given more freedom . |
| 28 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 29 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 30 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |